Guatemala, Ixlama

Origin

• 🇬🇹 Guatemala

Tasting notes

Character

• Sweet
  50
• Bright
  25
• Comforting
  25

Ixlama is a coffee that does its job and does it well. An approachable work-horse, this coffee appeals to the jaded coffee drinker and the enthusiastic novice alike. We roast this coffee to let its round, clean sweetness shine through, and frequently find notes of apple, chocolate, and caramel in the cup. Where it's from Ixlama is a coffee born out of collaboration. It is the culmination of work by over 100 family producers in the Guatemalan municipalities of San Pedro Necta and La Libertad in the department of Huehuetenango, a region known for rugged landscapes and high elevation. The crop, consisting of half BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars. and half CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. varietals, is shade grown and then sorted and milled at Transcafe’s mill at Caserio Teogal Adea San Martin. The mill uses “guardiolas”, a coffee dryer patented by a Guatemalan resident in 1872, after coffees are sun-driedNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. on cement patios.